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Outside of its thrice-yearly international meetings designed to bring all interested parties together, ICANN also holds smaller regional meetings targeted at the entities it has direct contracts with, the registrars and the registries. The first such meeting of 2013 started today in A...
ICANN has shaken up its new gTLD program team and is also revisiting its approach to communicating with the outside world. Since program director Kurt Pritz left ICANN, new faces have stepped into the limelight. There’s a new program General Manager, Christine Willet, and a new gTLD c...
Let me set a scenario for you. You have an problem with your mobile phone provider in terms of a service issue. As an avid Twitter user you tweet them with the basic details of your problem. You know that it is them because they have a verified Twitter account (signified by the green ...
Travelling backwards on a train is disconcerting. Even though I’m not driving the train I keep feeling that I should be turning round to see where I am going. Somehow, this makes the tedium of the journey even more unbearable despite some good company and the close proximity of an alc...
On June 13, 2012, ICANN revealed it had received 1930 new gTLD requests. Since then, that number has been going down. ICANN has logged 13 withdrawal requests, 6 of which have already been approved: AND, ARE, EST, CHATR, KSB and CIALIS. The remaining 7 are still being processed. So it’...
So after months of speculation as to who would be the first off the block with their new gTLD, the ICANN draw earlier this week has given some indication of which new Top Level Domains will be the first to see light of daw. For those of us who sat through the live streaming of the dra...
While video and music piracy regularly steals the headlines in the technology world, there is a quietly growing problem of eBook piracy threatening the entire publishing industry. The wide availability of titles online is of particular concern to textbook publishers, whose already sma...
If you have kids, then you will know that we are now entering the “silly season”. Halloween and Bonfire night displays have now disappeared from shops, replaced by fake snow, mince pies and Wham’s Last Christmas CDs. There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by when something else expe...
